Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

Latest from Maria Deutscher

Today’s Big Data News: EMC, Hadapt and TukoDB

We’ve had quite a bit of big data updates crossing the wire today, stretching all the way from EMC to Hadoop.  Today, EMC announced that the University at Buffalo has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS for its Center for Computational Research, which supports hundreds of researchers. The Center provides cluster computing solutions for the entire ...

Big Data Algorithms & Analysis = Insight and Competitive Edge?

Today is Om Malik’s #bigdataconf, a special one-day event he’s holding under the umbrella of his series of cloud-centric Structure conferences. We’ve been following the emergent trend of Big Data here at SiliconANGLE for well over a year now, and a lot of the questions posed as themes for the conference have been addressed by ...

Tech Companies Continue Raising Relief Funds for Japan

The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan left over 18,000 confirmed dead or missing, and tech companies from the far reaches of Silicon Valley signed up to aid in relief efforts. LivingSocial is the latest company to do so – the daily deals site and Groupon competitor raised exactly $2,301,130 for the American Red Cross’s ...

Every Federal Agency Needs a Big Data Strategy: Report

Big Data innovation and tools adoption is inevitable as the web and tech industry advance and get more and more sophisticated. This is also true for the public sector, which is why the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) working group announced the Designing a Digital Future report. The 119-page report to ...

Where the Personal Cloud Meets Storage: Organizing Facebook, and Everything Else

Social networking was once the new kid on the block, but as it matured to become a multi-billion dollar industry, and spurred a few dozen new industries along the way.  Personal cloud and storage took its place amongst these new services. The next big thing may just be personal cloud services -“Facebook is for your ...

CrowdFlower Raises Funds, Goes Beyond Crowdsourcing: Big Data Analytics

Big data is one of the most buzzed about catch phrases you’ll hear in the cloud, and more and more companies are hopping on this bandwagon to turn all that buzz into revenue. The latest example is CrowdFlower, the popular crowdsourcing platform, which announced a couple of big developments today: it raised $7 million in ...

Diskeeper Launches New Analytics Product, Industry Gets Heated

Data protection, hardware optimization and backup are some of the hottest trends in the cloud right now, and we’ve just got an upgrade from Diskeeper. The veteran data performance software vendor, which has been around since 1986, today announced the latest version of its flagship product: Diskeeper 2011. The offering seems to bring along some ...

HP Says Japanese Employees Safe, Prices Going Up

Hewlett-Packard released some information on how it and its local operations were affected from the Japanese earthquake – the same story it shares with other major players in the tech industry. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, HP noted all of its local employees are safe and none of its Tokyo offices ...

Social Bookmarks Pay Off in Big Data Markets

Free social bookmarking service AddToAny just turned a profit – right before it’s having its 5th anniversary this week (same age as Twitter!). The AddToAny button is one of the most-used  widgets on the web – and the most distributed one from a bootstrapped start-up. It handles over a billion widget loads and millions of ...

HP Gets into your Pocket: Prepaid Cards to Stimulate Consumer Buys

The financial industry will be going through a transformation as online payment solutions and technologies such as NFC are being deployed. However, the wallet and credit card won’t disappear anytime soon – at least, that’s what HP seems to think. Today the world’s biggest computer manufacturer announced the HP Prepaid Card Services suit, a payment ...